Dr Sung-Yueh Perng

Social Sciences Institute (MUSSI),

Iontas Building
2nd Floor
Room 2.02
(01) 708 6146

About

Sung-Yueh Perng is a Postdoctoral Researcher on the Programmable City project, exploring current and emerging collaborations and contestations in the processes of situating codes, software, geodata and mobile devices in their social, spatial and technological configurations.

Before joining NIRSA, he worked in Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, on the BRIDGE project, investigating social and ethical opportunities and challenges arising from incorporating social computing into emergency response. He also explored various ways in which routines in everyday life have been (and continue to be) reshaped through the exposure to and engagement with innovative ideas and practices, digital and locative arts, wireless signals and various mobilities systems.

His research draws on mobilities research, science and technology studies, social and cultural geography, media and communication studies, participatory design and CSCW, and is particularly interested in mobile, participatory, experimental and engaged research methods.
 

Recent Publications
Peer-reviewed papers
Perng, SY (in press), Performing tasks with Wi-Fi signals in Taipei, Space and Culture
Büscher, M, Perng, SY and Liegl, M, (2015) Privacy, security, liberty: Informing the design of emergency management information systems, International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, 6(4), 76-92.
Büscher, M, Perng, SY and Weise, S (2014) Periphere Kooperation am Beispiel der Anschläge in Norwegen 2011 / Peripheral Cooperation in Crises: Norway 22/7/11, I-COM: A Journal of Interactive and Cooperative Media, 13(1), 12–19.
Büscher, M, Liegl, M, Perng, SY and Wood, L. (2014) How to follow the information? A study of informational mobilities in crises, Sociologica, 1.
Perng, SY, Büscher, M, Wood, L, Halvorsrud, R, Stiso, M, Ramirez, L and Al-Akkad, A (2013) Peripheral response during the 22/7/2011 Norway attacks, International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, 5(1), 41-57.
Büscher, M, Wood, L and Perng, SY (2013) Privacy, security, liberty: Informing the design of emergency management information systems, in Proceedings of International Community on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM) 2013, Baden-Baden, Germany, 12th – 15th May, 2013.

Conferences
Perng, SY and Büscher, M (2015) Augmenting modelling and prediction for crisis response, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2015), Kristiansand, Norway, 24-27 May 2015, Palen, Büscher, Comes & Hughes, eds.
Perng, SY and Kitchin, R, Solutions, strategies and frictions in civic hacking, Mediacity 5, 1st – 3rd May, Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK.
Perng, SY, The digital, the interactional, the mobile: Making and making use of data, insights and solutions, Transforming Digital Methods, Winter School, Exeter University, 11th – 12th December 2014, Exeter, UK.
Perng, SY (with Maalsen, S), Soundscape of mobilising codes, Networked Urban Mobilities, 5th – 7th November 2014, Aalborg University, Copenhagen Campus, Copenhagen, Denmark
Maalsen, S and Perng, SY, Encountering the city at hackathons, Code and the City Workshop, 3rd – 4th September 2014, NIRSA, NUI Maynooth, Maynooth, Ireland
Perng, S and Kitchin, R, Unintended expectations: Location-based Social Network (LBSN) data and unknown futures, RGS-IBG Annual Conference, 27th – 29th August 2014, London, UK, with Kitchin, R (First author)
Perng, S and Kitchin, R, From LBSN data to computing experiments, Conference of Irish Geographers, 8th – 10th May 2014, University of College of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Perng, S and Kitchin, R, Experimenting LBSN futures, The Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, 8th – 12th April 2014, Tampa, Florida, with Kitchin, R
Perng, S, Mobile communities and the design and production of data solutions, Making Data Workshop, 22nd – 23rd January 2014, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK (Invited presentation)